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Positivistic models of long-run labor allocation dynamics

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  • Denis Stijepic

    (Fernuniversität in Hagen)

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The three-sector framework (relating to agriculture, manufacturing, and services) is one of the major concepts for studying the long-run dynamics of the economic structure. We summarize the empirical/theoretical literature consensus by formulating ‘economic laws’ of long-run structural change in the three-sector framework. Based on these laws, we derive the (qualitative/geometrical) properties of the dynamic system describing the structural change and apply the standard concepts/theorems of dynamic systems analysis (e.g., omega limit sets) to derive the implications of these laws for the future (transitional and limit) structural dynamics in developed and developing countries. The advantage of this system theoretical approach is that it minimizes the dependence of the predictions on theoretical/ideological arguments, which are often criticized in economics.

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  • Denis Stijepic, 2017. "Positivistic models of long-run labor allocation dynamics," Journal of Economic Structures, Springer;Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), vol. 6(1), pages 1-30, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jecstr:v:6:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1186_s40008-017-0078-7
    DOI: 10.1186/s40008-017-0078-7
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    Keywords

    Structural change; Labor; Re-allocation; Sectors; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Services; Long run; Dynamics; Trajectory; Geometry; Simplex; Dynamic systems;
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    JEL classification:

    • C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
    • C65 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Miscellaneous Mathematical Tools
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology

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